Guimarin, Dewhurst, Ahlenius, Lucio, and Greenberg

Jim Guimarin, owner of a shop near the Alamo, quoted in the San Antonio Express-News on the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, who watch over the historic site: "They usually get around to doing what needs to be done. You'd have to go to their meetings to know when and how they'll get it done. And of course, no one's been allowed to do that."

Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, quoted in the Rio Grande Guardian from a speech in South Texas: "We have two wars everyone talks about going on. One is in Iraq and one is in Afghanistan. We've got a third going on and that's the border where we've got billions and billions of dollars worth of dangerous drugs and we've got heavily armed men carrying those drugs across."

McAllen Chamber President and CEO Steve Ahlenius, reacting, in the same publication: "I think that is one of the challenges we have as a region, how to offset some of those images because it does send the wrong message. I think it scares people unnecessarily and those of us that live here in this region know it is very safe."

Sen. Eddie Lucio Jr., D-Brownsville, in the Rio Grande Guardian: "We deserve to have at least three congressional districts anchored in the Valley and going north. I will work to that effect next session and I will seriously look at running for one of those seats."

Former Rep. Sherri Greenberg, who now teaches at the University of Texas' LBJ School of Public Affairs, in The Dallas Morning News: If you are looking for benefits, you don't move to Texas."